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[01:37:17] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - http://sylnt.us - escape-from-reality
[03:17:03] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - http://sylnt.us - Pareto-principle?
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[04:55:22] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - http://sylnt.us - circle-of-life
[06:26:03] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - http://sylnt.us - bird-box-or-bird-brained?
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[12:06:02] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Unmuting Large Silent Genes Lets Bacteria Produce New Molecules, Potential Drug Candidates - http://sylnt.us - like-an-ox
[12:08:23] <FatPhil> Inspired by Sargon - I just took the Political Compass test: https://www.politicalcompass.org
[12:08:24] <upstart> Error: Title is empty
[12:08:33] <FatPhil> I'm moving right as I get older...
[12:53:43] <Bytram> coffee++
[12:53:43] <Bender> karma - coffee: 4528
[13:22:48] <Bytram> ~weather Adelaide
[13:22:50] <exec> 10Adelaide SA, Australia - currently 65°F / 18°C, partly cloudy, wind S at 10 mph, humidity 61% - Friday partly cloudy (60°F:79°F / 16°C:26°C), Saturday partly cloudy (56°F:73°F / 13°C:23°C), Sunday sunny (57°F:79°F / 14°C:26°C), Monday mostly cloudy (57°F:82°F / 14°C:28°C)
[13:23:03] <Bytram> ~weather Melbourne
[13:23:05] <exec> 10Melbourne VIC, Australia - currently 64°F / 18°C, light rain showers, wind S at 17 mph, humidity 77% - Friday showers (61°F:107°F / 16°C:42°C), Saturday cloudy (56°F:67°F / 13°C:19°C), Sunday partly cloudy (55°F:72°F / 13°C:22°C), Monday mostly sunny (60°F:77°F / 16°C:25°C)
[13:23:47] <Bytram> ~weather Ceduna
[13:23:50] <exec> 10Ceduna SA, Australia - currently 65°F / 18°C, clear with periodic clouds, wind S at 15 mph, humidity 72% - Friday cloudy (61°F:73°F / 16°C:23°C), Saturday partly cloudy (56°F:71°F / 13°C:22°C), Sunday cloudy (57°F:73°F / 14°C:23°C), Monday partly cloudy (59°F:77°F / 15°C:25°C)
[13:23:58] <Bytram> ~weather Marble Bar
[13:24:00] <exec> 10Marble Bar WA, Australia - currently 85°F / 29°C, partly cloudy, wind NW at 15 mph, humidity 67% - Friday cloudy (78°F:110°F / 26°C:43°C), Saturday mostly sunny (81°F:108°F / 27°C:42°C), Sunday sunny (87°F:113°F / 31°C:45°C), Monday mostly sunny (82°F:113°F / 28°C:45°C)
[13:24:48] <Bytram> ~weather Victoria
[13:24:50] <exec> 10Victoria, BC, Canada - currently 45°F / 7°C, mostly cloudy, wind S at 3 mph, humidity 96% - Friday rain (42°F:49°F / 6°C:9°C), Saturday scattered showers (41°F:45°F / 5°C:7°C), Sunday partly cloudy (37°F:44°F / 3°C:7°C), Monday mostly cloudy (38°F:42°F / 3°C:6°C)
[13:25:04] <Bytram> ~weather Victoria, Australia
[13:25:06] <exec> 10Melbourne VIC, Australia - currently 64°F / 18°C, cloudy, wind S at 15 mph, humidity 77% - Friday showers (61°F:107°F / 16°C:42°C), Saturday cloudy (56°F:67°F / 13°C:19°C), Sunday partly cloudy (55°F:72°F / 13°C:22°C), Monday mostly sunny (60°F:77°F / 16°C:25°C)
[13:25:28] <Bytram> ~weather Tasmania
[13:25:30] <exec> 10Hobart TAS, Australia - currently 62°F / 17°C, clear, wind W at 12 mph, humidity 52% - Friday clear with periodic clouds (56°F:75°F / 13°C:24°C), Saturday partly cloudy (54°F:70°F / 12°C:21°C), Sunday partly cloudy (53°F:72°F / 12°C:22°C), Monday partly cloudy (57°F:72°F / 14°C:22°C)
[13:26:32] <Bytram> https://www.abc.net.au
[13:26:35] <upstart> ^ 03Welcome to Australia's furnace: How WA's Pilbara has unleashed a heatwave on the nation
[13:29:00] <AndyTheAbsurd> Bytram: .... I've read Footfall. But don't try to read Footfall and Lucifer's Hammer within a few months of each other; the authors rehash a lot of the same ideas with different causes.
[13:29:28] <Bytram> now that you mention it (it's been, umm, decades) I'm tempted to agree
[13:30:05] <Bytram> ~time x
[13:30:06] <exec> Friday, 4 January 2019 @ 1:30 pm UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
[13:30:09] <AndyTheAbsurd> IIRC, the reasons that two of the characters exist in Footfall is that Larry combined two people he knew into one character in Hammer, thinking that neither of them would recognize themselves...but both of them did!
[13:31:03] <Bytram> well, of course! Once you know you've been 'used' in one story, would not curiosity kick in to see if it happened again?
[13:31:14] <Bytram> ~weather tampa
[13:31:15] <exec> 10Tampa, FL - currently 72°F / 22°C, cloudy, wind S at 8 mph, humidity 95% - Friday scattered showers (61°F:78°F / 16°C:26°C), Saturday mostly sunny (49°F:66°F / 9°C:19°C), Sunday sunny (50°F:71°F / 10°C:22°C), Monday partly cloudy (54°F:76°F / 12°C:24°C)
[13:35:22] <Bytram> #g drongos
[13:35:22] <MrPlow> https://www.urbandictionary.com - "Recruits to the RAAF in WWII earned the nickname \"drongos\". (Nothing to do ... Drongo is a typically australian word and is part of common australian dialect."
[13:35:33] <Bytram> #g drongo
[13:35:33] <MrPlow> https://www.urbandictionary.com - "Recruits to the RAAF in WWII earned the nickname \"drongos\". (Nothing to do ... Drongo is a typically australian word and is part of common australian dialect."
[13:36:34] <Bytram> #g m-w drongo
[13:36:35] <MrPlow> https://cs.wikipedia.org - "Drongo černý (Dicrurus macrocercus) je malý pěvec z čeledi drongovitých (Dicruridae). Celoročně obývá oblast od Indie a severní Srí Lanky až po Čínu. Během ..."
[13:36:46] <Bytram> okaaay
[13:36:46] <AndyTheAbsurd> needs a #mw that cites Merriam-Webster.
[13:36:48] <AndyTheAbsurd> https://www.merriam-webster.com
[13:36:51] <upstart> ^ 03Definition of DRONGO
[13:37:02] <Bytram> mare see!
[13:37:29] <AndyTheAbsurd> There's even a free API! https://www.dictionaryapi.com
[13:37:31] <upstart> ^ 03Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
[13:37:37] <Bytram> yeah, but that ain't the use I'm seeing in this story submission, unfortunately
[13:37:56] <Bytram> #g dictionary.com drongo
[13:37:56] <MrPlow> https://www.dictionary.com - "Drongo definition, any passerine bird of the family Dicruridae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, the several species usually having black plumage and long, forked ..."
[13:41:20] <Bytram> #g slang drongo
[13:41:20] <MrPlow> https://www.urbandictionary.com - "Dumbass, idiot (Aussie slang) ... (Nothing to do with the class of bird -- drongo) ... Drongo is a typically australian word and is part of common australian dialect."
[13:42:55] <Bytram> AndyTheAbsurd: thanks for the help!
[13:46:51] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - http://sylnt.us - flexitarians
[13:47:19] <Bytram> https://arstechnica.com
[13:47:22] <upstart> ^ 03LG’s new OLED TVs: True 4K/120Hz, variable refresh rates, HDMI 2.1, more ( https://arstechnica.com )
[13:47:35] <Bytram> ~arthur https://arstechnica.com
[13:47:39] <exec> 763 stories loaded
[13:47:39] <exec> attempting to submit story: "LG announces its 2019 OLED TV lineup, plus an 8K monstrosity"
[13:48:10] <exec> submission successful - https://soylentnews.org
[13:48:16] <exec> 763 stories loaded
[13:49:28] <Bytram> ~arthur https://www.nytimes.com
[13:49:32] <exec> 763 stories loaded
[13:49:32] <exec> attempting to submit story: "Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data"
[13:50:02] <exec> error: something went wrong with your submission - maybe try again in a minute
[13:51:01] <Bytram> ~arthur https://www.nytimes.com
[13:51:05] <exec> 763 stories loaded
[13:51:05] <exec> attempting to submit story: "Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data"
[13:51:16] <Bytram> break time
[13:51:37] <exec> submission successful - https://soylentnews.org
[13:51:43] <exec> 762 stories loaded
[14:30:38] <FatPhil> ~weather
[14:30:40] <exec> 10Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia - currently 33°F / 1°C, cloudy, wind W at 8 mph, humidity 100% - Friday scattered snow showers (27°F:33°F / -3°C:1°C), Saturday cloudy (22°F:29°F / -6°C:-2°C), Sunday cloudy (24°F:26°F / -4°C:-3°C), Monday snow showers (29°F:36°F / -2°C:2°C)
[14:31:16] <FatPhil> ~weather Tartu
[14:31:18] <exec> 10Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia - currently 25°F / -4°C, snow, wind S at 10 mph, humidity 87% - Friday snow (19°F:26°F / -7°C:-3°C), Saturday cloudy (14°F:21°F / -10°C:-6°C), Sunday cloudy (15°F:17°F / -9°C:-8°C), Monday snow showers (28°F:33°F / -2°C:1°C)
[14:53:49] <AndyTheAbsurd> ~weather Foum Tatouine
[14:53:50] <exec> syntax: ~weather <location>
[14:54:19] <AndyTheAbsurd> ~weather Tataouine
[14:54:21] <exec> 10Tataouine, Tunisia - currently 53°F / 12°C, mostly cloudy, wind NW at 4 mph, humidity 38% - Friday partly cloudy (36°F:53°F / 2°C:12°C), Saturday sunny (38°F:53°F / 3°C:12°C), Sunday sunny (41°F:58°F / 5°C:14°C), Monday mostly sunny (40°F:59°F / 4°C:15°C)
[15:26:38] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Where Ordering Cannabis is as Easy as Booking a Taxi (Los Angeles) - http://sylnt.us - business-is-growing-like-weed[s]
[17:07:56] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - http://sylnt.us - I^W-we-see-what-you-did-there
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[18:37:08] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - http://sylnt.us - bleak-outcome
[20:15:25] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - http://sylnt.us - uy788*++ç+´]
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[21:36:29] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - SpaceX's Crew Dragon Shows up at Pad 39A, Nearly 8 Years after the Last Shuttle Left - http://sylnt.us - One-of-these-days,-Alice...To-the-Moon!!
[23:07:36] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Should the US Hand Over Minnesota's Northwest Angle to Canada? - http://sylnt.us - nah
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